FTP Fiddling

[major_clanger]

Anyone have any idea why I might be having problems ftp'ing files from my iBook to my filespace on Cix?

I wanted to upload some pics to link to them from LJ and as this was the first time I'd done this from my Mac I found a simple ftp client (Transmit) that would, it seemed, do the job for me.

Well, I could log in to Cix and view my existing files, but every attempt to upload ended with the transfer stalling and a zero-size file being created at the far end.

I then tried the UNIX command-line ftp. Exactly the same result.

I've checked my router firewall settings, and it is configured to allow all outgoing services. As for the OSX firewall, as I understand it the 'ftp' setting is for incoming services, not outgoing.

So what am I missing?

MC

Comments

[drplokta]

Regular ftp is fiddly with firewalls. It's both outgoing and incoming. You start an outgoing connection in order to log on, then the server opens a connection to you for the data transfer, rather than vice versa. Passive ftp gets round this problem, and if Transmit has that as a configuration setting, try it out.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Transmit claims to use passive ftp by default. Nonetheless, I tried enabling inbound ftp on both my router and OS X firewalls... still no joy.

MC